I finally start my first instrument approaches in gusty wind! Getting my instrument rating has been an interesting part of my aviation journey. My instrument rating training has definitely been ...

The FAA will defer the cancellation of 22 instrument ground-based approaches in response to comments from the AOPA, the association said. The AOPA gathered information from pilots on 154 instrument ...

The FAA today published new instrument approach procedures into the embattled East Hampton Town Airport on New York’s Long Island. As the battle continues over future access to East Hampton Town ...

Although a move to satellite-based navigation is a fundamental tenet of NextGen, the FAA says it will keep at least one legacy ground-based instrument approach procedure (IAP) at each U.S. airport ...

Before electronic flight bags, pilots used either Jeppesen or NOS paper charts for instrument approaches. Jeppesen charts were considered higher quality but more expensive. Key differences between ...

The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has successfully demonstrated manually flown, satellite navigation-guided precision approaches designed specifically for helicopters. When the equipment - categorised ...

Eurocopter hopes to get instrument flight rules eased by demonstrating safer operations with new systems Eurocopter has flight tested its EC-155B All Weather Helicopter (AWH) demonstrator in what it ...